Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Andy Dougherty]

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Benjamin Sugars wrote:

> Sorry if I wasn't clear.  My point is that we cannot blithely
> s/localtime/localtime_r/g on perl/*.c because the perl source needs to
> remain buildable on both the old and the new platforms. The fact that it's
> easier to upgrade some systems to reentrant interfaces does not change
> this.

That's "just" a Configure issue.  Someone just has to convince Jarkko or
me that it's worthwhile losing sleep to implement the appropriate
Configure probes and then coordinate with all the various platform porters
to get the specifics right for as many platforms as possible.  It's messy
and will take a fair amount of work, but it's not a fundamental
showstopper.

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    Andy Dougherty              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042